{"product_id":"all-the-wrong-places-a-life-lost-and-found-9780393088762","title":"All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his debut \u003cem\u003eFire Season\u003c\/em\u003e, Philip Connors recounted with lyricism, wisdom, and grace his decade as a fire lookout high above remote New Mexico. Now he tells the story of what made solitude on the mountain so attractive: the years he spent reeling in the wake of a family tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the age of twenty-three, Connors was a young man on the make. He'd left behind the Minnesota pig farm on which he'd grown up and the brother with whom he'd never been especially close. He had a magazine job lined up in New York City and a future unfolding exactly as he'd hoped. Then one phone call out of the blue changed everything. \u003cem\u003eAll the Wrong Places\u003c\/em\u003e is a searingly honest account of the aftermath of his brother's shocking death, exploring both the pathos and the unlikely humor of a life unmoored by loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with the otherworldly beauty of a hot-air-balloon ride over the skies of Albuquerque and ending in the wilderness of the American borderlands, this is the story of a man paying tribute to the dead by unconsciously willing himself into all the wrong places, whether at the copy desk of the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, the gritty streets of Bed-Stuy in the 1990s, or the smoking rubble of the World Trade Center. With ruthless clarity and a keen sense of the absurd, Connors slowly unmasks the truth about his brother and himself, to devastating effect. Like Cheryl Strayed's \u003cem\u003eWild\u003c\/em\u003e, this is a powerful look back at wayward years--and a redemptive story about finding one's rightful home in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393088762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/24\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2015 pg. 4\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2015 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/20\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Best Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2015 pg. 13\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Philip Connors","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51911610040501,"sku":"9780393088762","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3669fa4f-ae4b-416b-8543-8f26dbcf3a3b.jpg?v=1761056856","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/all-the-wrong-places-a-life-lost-and-found-9780393088762","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}